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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 16d

📣 We're looking for a new Bibliographer to join the #UrbanHistory team!

This is a great opportunity to get involved with a world-leading academic journal and find out about the latest urban history publications.

Apply by 5pm on Friday 6 November. Contact Roey Sweet for more details.

Call for Bibliographer for Urban History

Urban History seeks to appoint a new bibliographer to compile our annual bibliography of publication in urban history.
This is an exciting opportunity to become involved with a world-leading journal for urban historical research. Urban History is published by Cambridge University Press and occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities and supplementary material including periodical reviews, thesis reviews and book reviews. The bibliography, which has a global coverage, provides an essential tool for researchers interested in exploring recent publications and historiographical trends in their fields.
About the bibliographer role
The role involves the following tasks:
• Searching for books, book chapters and journal articles published in the preceding calendar year, using online resources (journal websites, the Bibliography of British and Irish History and publishers’ websites).
• Compiling a bibliography of all the entries ordered by thematic categories (typically 1000 entries).
• Working with the production team at Cambridge University Press to check and proof-read copy edits before final production.
We expect the new bibliographer to be able to start on 1 January 2026.
We are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages and we welcome applications from historians – working in any context – from under-represented groups, including those from minoritized ethnic groups, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ people, and those who are ‘first generation’ in Higher Education.
The positions attract an annual honorarium.

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Successful candidates will be fully supported by the the journal editors (Shane Ewen, Prashant Kidambi, Roey Sweet, Domenic Vitiello and Rosemary Wakeman).
How to apply
Those interested in making an application for the position of review editor should send to Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk)
• a CV (no more than 3 pages)
• a summary of 300 words outlining your interest in the role

Enquiries
Informal enquiries about the role, including honorarium payments, can be made to: Professor Roey Sweet rhs4@le.ac.uk
Deadline
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 6 November

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 6d

Rounding out this special issue

🇨🇺 Guadalupe García, 'Margarita’s La Habana: colonial ports and Black ecologies in early nineteenth-century Havana'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Title and abstract for the linked article

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eglerin.bsky.social @eglerin.bsky.social · 7d

Want to know how #heritage was used to open up the #secret #atomic #cities in #Russia? See my article on #NuclearCulturalHeritage in #Sarov/Arzamas-16 that has just been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social as part of special issue edited by Victoria Fomina www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past | Urban History | Cambridge Core

The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past

www.cambridge.org

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 8d

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University.

⏰ 18:00 - 19:00
📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus
🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBritishHistory

50 years on: Caribbean women and the Chapeltown bonfire night incident 1975

Marking 50 years since the Bonfire Twelve, this talk explores the women's role in resisting racism and injustice in Leeds.

bit.ly

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 8d

We hope to see as many of you as possible at our Lightning Talks in Black British History: the first event of our academic year! Get in touch if you are a PGR or ECR who would like to present, and please circulate among students who may be interested in sharing their work for 3-5 minutes

IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8d

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 8d

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 8d

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 9d

Working on pre-modern customs records, in any context? We're running a session "Quayside and Custom House: Customs Accounts as a Source for Medieval and Early Modern Urban History" at EAUH 2026 Barcelona. Paper submissions very welcome! www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se...

Sessions - EAUH2026

Sessions go to quick Sessions’ overview Session 1 Main Session The Cities that made the Empire: Connectivity and Urban Networks from Late Republican to Imperial Times Organizers Noelia Cases MoraUnive...

www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 12d

This article came out a few months ago. It's about how the socio-spatial boundaries of towns colonial Sabah (North Borneo) were drawn and transgressed. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

The spaces of colonial towns: urban life in North Borneo, 1900s–1930s | Urban History | Cambridge Core

The spaces of colonial towns: urban life in North Borneo, 1900s–1930s

doi.org

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Michael Yeo @michaelyeo.bsky.social · 12d

This was just published, also by @urbanhistory.bsky.social, and it's an urban history of coasts and colonialism. I look at why a series of settlements struggled to survive in Borneo from the late eighteenth century.
doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo

doi.org

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Of course, if you're interested in histories of colonial and/or port cities you might also find it worthwhile to check out the *previous* @urbanhistory.bsky.social special issue, including a little something by yours truly:

An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia | Urban History | Cambridge Core

An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia

doi.org

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Big fan of this work by Michael Yeo that attempts an urban history from the perspective of (serially) failed settlements.

Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🚢 Michael Yeo, 'Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 12d

Oh cool! I had the privilege to take part in various bits of the process that eventually yielded this special issue and I can assure you there's some great stuff in there.

Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🌊 @mgoebel.bsky.social and Xinge Zhai, 'Conclusion: the social environments of port cities in the longue durée'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🛬 Cyrus Schayegh, 'Emergence of an aero-city: path dependency and ‘internal’ dimensions in BEY/Beirut from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🌊 Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, 'Troubled waters: rewriting environmental histories of Lagos, 1882–1921'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🏙️ Anindita Ghosh, 'Settling for less: the uneven urbanization and modernization of nineteenth-century Calcutta'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🛶 Adrián Lerner Patrón, 'A riverine society: Iquitos and the precarious urbanization of Amazonia'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🛃 Olivia Irena Durand, 'Fragmented cosmopolitanism in the southern borderlands: the socio-environmental histories of New Orleans and Odessa'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

💩 Lucia Carminati, 'Faecal matters: an excremental archive of early Port Said'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

⛏️ Sujit Sivasundaram, 'Breaking the sea and digging the earth: wetland infrastructures and social conflicts in late modern Colombo'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

🚢 Michael Yeo, 'Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

⏩ @samgrinsell.bsky.social, 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 13d

Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity

doi.org

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 13d

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam

patchworkcities.com

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